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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The redshirt debate is so dumb. The advantages are highly exaggerated. No one is going to think your kid is super smart because they repeated a grade. And your kid may feel self conscious and embarrassed by being older than everyone else for the rest of their time in school (not to mention being incredibly bored having to repeat a grade). [/quote]

Lol no. The only people who have a problem are people like OP who think they made a mistake or missed out. It’s all upside for redshirters.[/quote]

I’ve seen it go sideways in athletics with kids who were used to cruising by being the stars in elementary and when some of the younger kids came out ahead post puberty they struggled not being the best on the team and didn’t have the grit and work ethic to keep up and dropped altogether. I saw that even in 4/5 grade when kids started evening out. [/quote]

I haven’t. No regrets in anyone i have known.[/quote]

You haven’t reached a higher level of athletics. Both myself and my DH played D1- football and soccer and both of us are summer on time. You can’t fake it at the higher levels [/quote]

Why do you think your recruiting experience from thirty years ago is at all relevant to how NCAA works today?

As someone with kids playing college now, I’ve found the former athletes are often the most clueless and entitled parents, because they think their connections will carry their kids and they don’t understand just how changed the landscape is from when they played. [/quote]

Right. You think you know more as someone sitting on the sideline reading articles than someone who actually was a college athlete, makes total sense. [/quote]

Someone who has kids who were successfully recruited to a top athletic college program now absolutely knows more about current NCAA recruiting than someone who is as painfully out of touch as a former athlete resting on their admissions from thirty years ago.

It’s funny to read how out of touch PP is. [/quote]

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